Rework BATFORM

34 votes

I think the bat form is unfortunate. It's one of the high level powers and I think it's useless.

If you go up into the sky, you don't see anything on the ground, it takes forever to transform.

I think it's a problem, not being able to land in gardens or castles that don't have a roof, that's definitely the usefulness of this transformation.

The transformation should at least do one of two things.

You can see people from above
or
You can land on enemy territory, which has no roof (gardens, walls, no ground).

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is useless in pvp servers and pve servers.
In pve servers u go in horse with all resorces and dont have any problem.
And pvp servers its only for travel one way. Its same to portal and u dont have move any resorces. Is easy understand. Is useless. the batform need rework. And in high lvl u dont use bat form never. for what? its only for pvp (gank or enter open castle/base) and not is posible

Feedback Suggested by: Salchinsky (19 Jun, '22) • Upvoted: 08 Jan • Comments: 6

Comments: 6

11 Jun, '22
Nixi Merged
Push a button in bat form and resources below you are highlighted (ie. crystal rocks, quarts, iron, etc.)
22 Jun, '22
Blowfekd
Batform is super strong for gathering intel, figuring out weaknesses of enemy bases, scouting ahead and moving to certain hotspots fast. Saying that it is useless on pvp servers just shows that your feedback lacks experience.
30 Jun, '22
Zzzzz Merged
Bat Form is extremely strong, allowing you to fly anywhere on the entire map, or fly entirely behind strong fortifications, or scout places you really shouldn't be allowed to.
I think it should be removed from the game entirely, (or disabled in PVP modes), but as that's unlikely to happen, I would love to see it be more expensive to use. Perhaps consuming blood MUCH faster, since flying is hard work.
27 Jul, '22
Coldays
I've only played PvE, but I find bat form useless too. I don't mind the transformation time, but I think you should be able to carry resources to make it more useful (at least in PvE). I only use it because I think it's cool, but it's barely an upgrade to horse or even running. Especially since you get it so late in the game
16 Aug, '22
Tony
I agree it needs a slight rework. While, as said, PvP servers it can be useful in PvE it's almost useless.

This is due to it's limitations; Being unable to carry resources is the biggest issue. I feel it should be an option, similarly to being able to teleport resources.
The other issue, of taking so long to transform, I understand the desire to keep it from being a get out of jail free card but I feel a reasonable compromise would be to drastically speed up the transformation time but make it unusable when flagged as in combat.
Another issue is it's speed. Yes, it's safe travel at night but with a swift horse, a wrangler potion, and potentially good worker blood a horse is much less hassle to use and carries the benefit of transporting resources.
09 Dec, '23
Vlad de la Sim
It would be nice if buildmode could be used while in batform in own territory and hight be a bit adjustable. floor by floor. Nice PvE use.
Sometimes it is hard to see castle from all angles and sometime one just have to place something just slightly out of sight.